Sometimes the brave men and women who assume the responsibility of serving in our nation’s military return to few opportunities in civilian life. Their challenges may include finding housing, employment, financial hardships, and the transition from a military lifestyle to one with much less structure. FrontLine Service’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) provides these individuals and their families with the support they need to overcome these challenges.
Read MoreImagine coming from a series of broken homes, left emotionally and psychologically scarred from your childhood, abandoned by your family, jumping from foster home to foster home. In such an unforgiving world, you turn to drugs as your only escape as you enter into adulthood with no home, no income, and no support from family.
When you find out that you are going to be a parent, you know you would do anything for your child to save him from the life you have lived. That was the situation Cindy found herself in before finding FrontLine Service’s Bridges to Housing program.
Read MoreFrom the outside, Safe Haven appears to be just another house in the neighborhood. But for those who have experienced homelessness for years while struggling with severe and persistent mental illness, Safe Haven is a refuge. A refuge for people like Gregory.
Gregory is one of the people who live at Safe Haven’s family-like environment with experienced, 24-hour staff. Because of this unique program, Gregory was able to have a second chance at living a happier and more independent life.
Read MoreBeyond the cityscape of skyscrapers is a green park, an oasis for those seeking respite from concrete and blacktopped roads. There, on a bench near a bus stop, a woman rested. This space was her home. She was a familiar face in the neighborhood, the locals treated her with kindness. They knew her only as “Lisa.”
Like every other day, she sat on the bench adorned in sunglasses, her wavy locks of grey and white hair flowing out from under her two hats, one stacked on top of the other. She wore various layers of shirts and pants which she kept on year-round, no matter the season. And that late summer afternoon wasn’t any different until someone came to join her.
Read MoreMelanie, like many young adults who age out of foster care, was homeless when she first encountered FrontLine. Our team helped her find an apartment, manage her mental health, regain custody of her child and maintain stable employment and housing.
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